The Toy Box is where I write about all of the weird and wonderful hobby projects that I have created over the years. Some turned in to commercial products, others were just “how cool would it be?” ideas.

You can read about my experiments with M.A.M.E. and other emulators on various video game consoles, SenseCam software for my cell phone and desktop computer, games that never saw the light of day and even a few books that were almost published but the publisher decided at the last moment to back out.

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Added in the help screens. Click the question mark in the top right of each theme to view them. Swipe left and right to view each page. If you’re using the mouse, left click and drag left or right. Getting very close to release now! A few more features and some bug fixes and tweaks… Click to read the remainder of the post

A little over a month ago I interviewed with a small start-up company in Los Angeles doing some very cool work on a serious game for military and medical usage. Essentially it is an ultrasound simulation game that teaches medical personnel how to read an ultrasound image. This particular company had a unique twist on… Need to read the rest of “Ultrasound iPhone Device?” Click this!

I have been tinkering around with the software I use for image feature extraction in my large collection of SenseCam images. Using OpenCV, a SURF algorithm and Python I have been able to create a small command-line application that can accurately determine places I have visited before based on the captured images. The Python script… Hankering to get the rest of “SenseCam Image Recognition?” Click here!

Ahhhh! The GameBoy Advance. What a wonderful machine. So light! So refreshing! So versatile! Another Atari VCS 2600 emulator for the new Nintendo GameBoy Advance. I’ve been tinkering with this for well over 8 months and it’s now at a stage where I’m prepared to show it off. The emulator is written in pure assembly… Click this link to read the remainder of “Atari 2600 VCS Emulator for GBA.”

After successfully porting M.A.M.E. to the Sony PlayStation 2 I just had to try and port my generic Atari VCS 2600 emulator. The results are good. I’ve mapped the video display on to a cube that can be rotated around as you play. With VSync turned off the emulator runs at well over 300 frames… Click here to continue reading the remainder of the article